The guy coached your mob to it's only premiership in 70-odd years. Show a little respect...
Thank you very much Forest Gimp!
Some one who actually can see all this rubbish & ungrateful dribble coming from some of my fellow supporters mouths.
I can't actually believe what I am reading here. Paul Roos has delivered us a flag! The first one in 72 years in fact. Some of my knowledgable fellow Swans have posted Roos' successful history as coach of the Swans.
It is second to none in his time as a coach. I'll back Roos ANY day!
Roos is being sold short quite unfairly here by none other then people that have no idea............both some Swans supporters & opposition supporters the like. How many people out there thought that we would not make the 8 when Hall was struck down with the knee & then Kennelly with the same knee injury twice. Each time I bet many of you said that we're gone..................."won't make the finals now.................this era of Swans are finished"! I heard it & read it all year until now & am sick of hearing it. Especially from my fellow Swans.
Let's get one thing straight here. Many have said we are gone. Roos won't do this...Roos won't do that. Well my friends! Roos has DONE SOMETHING!
OUT.......Schneider & Dempster.........two p'ship players that don't have ANY impact on a game when it's needed or EXPECTED by p'ship players at the prime age of 23.
EXAMPLES
Elimination final versus Collingwood............Micky O kicks a goal & we are just 4 points behind. The Swans of 05 & 06 would have swamped Collingwood once we got a sniff. Mick O then takes a terrific & gutsy mark 30 mts out, slight angle but when he lands he hurts himself & can't take the kick!!
ENTER one Adam Schneider! He takes the kick that "WILL" put us in front.......................IF he kicks it!
HE MISSES!!!
My heart sank!! I knew we were not the same team after the Pies slammed on a few goals in a hurry. It's almost as if our players that have been giving their all, were deflated by that miss. Make no mistake, the leadership group would have been a party to the decision to move Schneider on. He was fully fit that night unlike many of our players & has been with us for 5 years & SHOULD be getting better! He has NO IMPACT in any games unless we are 30 - 40 points up! But when it matters he goes missing. He was also responsible for showing NO RESPECT to Marty Clarke of Collingwood in his first game & got smashed by this freak!
This would all have been taken into account in making the decision.
Now.....Dempster................same deal here. NO IMPACT from him which is what is expected & required from a player that has played in a p'ship two years ago. If he hasn't set the world on fire by now my friends, then he ain't gonna ever do it. Well at the Swans any how. Give him a chance at a lesser club & he'll be a better player. And yes St Kilda fans. I will say a lesser club because with all the early draft picks & star players you have in your team, you all have to admit that you have under achieved over the last 5 years or so. Each & every year you have fallen WELL short of where you were expected to finish. In 2007 you didn't even make the finals.
I'm sure that will change under Ross Lyon but whether Dempster & Schneider will have the desired impact is still to be seen.
I've seen Dempster get chased down time & time again when running out of defence...........SLOWLY............& looking for a target. He has little or no awareness of what is going on around him. I think he was offered as a trade on his own but I don't think much would have been offered. So to get the Schneider deal done, Roosy has thrown Dempster in.
We now have a hard nut in Mattner to replace Dempster & Schmidt will walk straight into the role that Schneider was SUPPOSED to be doing. And that is to be a dangerous pain in the ar.e to the opposition kicking a 1 or 2 goals a week as well as apply defensive pressure to the opposition when his team hasn't got the ball.
THAT, my friends, is how The Bloods play football & that is what Paul Roos , master coach & tactition, wants from a team that he is going to coach!!
Cheers!
